Google wants to take on Apple with an open AirPlay alternative — Google is working on an open alternative to Apple's AirPlay, and it's hoping to bring a number of device and software vendors on board to provide the industry with an open technology to exchange data between second screens and TV-connected devices.

How to Get Startup Ideas — The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself. — The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they're something the founders themselves want …

The Depressing Day After You Get TechCrunched — If you're a first-time reader, you can get future posts by subscribing via email or following me on Twitter. — Note: This post is loosely based on our experience 2 years ago when TechCrunch covered Yipit's launch.

All the Black Friday Deals: 2012 — It's the biggest shopping day of the year. There are tons of deals—and not-really-deals—out there. So we combed through every one we could find, and ranked them all. Here's your Ultimate Black Friday guide: happy hunting.

Exclusive: Internal Videos Show Why Microsoft Kin Cratered — Do you remember the Microsoft Kin? It's okay if you don't-Microsoft certainly would like for you to forget it ever existed. Kin was a family of phones from Microsoft that launched to much fanfare in 2010, sold incredibly poorly …

Linux Rootkit Found Launching iFrame Injection Attacks — Last week, someone posted a module to the Full Disclosure mailing list, which turned out to be a rootkit for Linux. Experts examined it, and concluded that if anything, it's a unique piece of malware, in addition to it being a credible risk to LAMPP deployments.

Why big data could sink Europe's ‘right to be forgotten’ — Europe's proposed ‘right to be forgotten’ has been the subject of intense debate, with many people arguing it's simply not practical in the age of the internet for any data to be reliably expunged from history. — Well, add another voice to that mix.

Amazon Kindle Fire HD review (8.9-inch, 4G LTE) — What a difference a generation makes. While the original Kindle Fire impressed, there was only one thing that really made it worth considering: it was cheap. Really cheap. But, when we got our hands on the 7-inch …

The incredible persistence of email — The rise of enterprise social software and easy-to-use online collaboration tools were supposed to be the undoing of corporate email. Yet while we continue to hear stories about email killers, email still thrives and is even projected to grow in businesses.